Mirror Athlete's Fitness Secrets!

Weight Control is a very important issue with regard to good health and overall fitness.   In order to obtain the balance required to control weight and achieve good health “three” very important elements are essential to first understand about balancing body composition to control weight.  In order to get a handle on weight control one has to have a good understanding of cause and effect pertaining to nutrition, exercise, and fitness.

 1)     The nutritional component is a molecular nourishment process within the body where living organisms assimilates food and replaces tissue and stimulates growth.   If an organism can’t assimilate all that’s put into the body it will be stored as fat “pretty straight forward.”

 2)   The exercise component is the act of putting the body to work while increasing metabolism, strengthening muscle, tendons, ligaments and bone maintenance to name a few” also burn more fuel [ideally “fat”].  Muscle burns more body fat.

 3) The fitness component is the effect of the first two essential elements toward maintaining and regulating body weight “the elements to good health are balanced, or their not.”  “Fitness is defined as being the proper shape, size; “fit body” relative for your body type, age, sex, etc.”  This is a fairly simplistic and generalized statement.  “What seems normal and comfortable to you may not necessarily be fit, or health.  We all tend to see ourselves differently as we gaze into the mirror.

 By now I’m sure you’ve figured out the first two elements to balance overall weight control are dependent upon nutritional and exercise behavioral components.  For example, if you over eat and don’t move your body with purpose “it will store excess fuel as fat.”  If you never get adequate exercise “movement,” on a daily basis, especially as we age “we’ll tend to get heavier.”  However, if we do the opposite, consume less and move around daily “with purpose,” the fat will slowly come off the body.  The examples serve as a simplistic cause-effect of weight control, but one I can all relate too.  Big tip of the day, many weight loss supplements offered within extreme dieting programs are very dangerous, and one should “NEVER” enter a weight loss program based on starvation (800calories, or less, unless monitored weekly by a nutritionist).   Let me be clear, these extreme fad diets “always” mess up metabolism at the cellular level.  This means, you may have dramatic weight loss effects for the short term, but as soon as you go off the program and the old behavioral eating habits take hold, you’re body tends to grow bigger.  Moderation is key in controlling weight and balancing the three important elements to lose weight and keep it off successfully.

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Author:  Marc T. Woodard, MBA, BS Exercise Science, USA Medical Services Officer, CPT, RET.  2007-2009 Copyright, All rights reserved.  Mirror Athlete Enterprises Publishing @: www.mirrorathlete.com, Sign up for your free eNewsletter.